You're right on. But in terms of the person you quoted I wouldn't bother. It is not apt to actually discuss anything. There is a line and it will stick to it.
And Sat clearly got his line from Edler's camp. There is no reason for the organization to leak that and Sat has no sources league-wide.
So there was a path to trade Edler if they wanted to. Benning either decided to ignore it or wanted nothing to do with it.
or benning didn't like the pens offer for edler in the first place (the same as dorion did not like the pens offer for ceci).
or benning decided to trade gudbranson to the pens instead.
there are many possibilities on why benning did what he did. i like the end result.
and a cynical man would say that edler's agent is trying to have his cake and eat it here. edler spends years loudly saying he will not waive then on the eve of the tdl suddenly his agent makes blatant leaks to local media to (a) suddenly complain negotiations are "nowhere" and (b) suddenly hint that edler will trade to a contender if extended.
why is this happening? the answer is that edler's agent has got a pr battle ahead of him. fans will expect a hometown discount from a guy who refused to waive. so the agent tried to muddy the waters to suggest maybe he could have been traded.